Diners #16-20

Five more diners to look at.  Lets start on Long Island.

The Moriches Bay Diner is located at 62 Montauk Hightway in Moriches. The diner is conveniently located to the west of the Moriches Bypass, a typical retail location after a bypass is put in.  I am unsure of the year of this diner, but it does sport a DeRaffele tag by the door.  One could guess it is a 1970s diner with a new roof and marble under the windows, or that it was built later in the 1980s or even 1990s as an environmental diner with more durable materials.  Either way, I remember the food being decent.

Betsy's Diner is a Mountain View located on Main Street in Falmouth, Massachusetts.  This diner came from Allentown, Pennsylvania around 1992.  My photo was taken on one of my two trips to the east side of the Cape.  Mountain View numbers their diners, and Betsy's is number #498.  Randy Garbin's book, "Diners of New England gives the diner high praises.  With the two handicap spaces in front, it is easier to get a good shot of the diner, but the bushes in front negate any chances for a good photo.

  In Waverly, Ohio, one can find the highly successful Diner 23.  Mike Corwin comes from a family of diner owners.  His father ran a small chain of Valentine diners in central Ohio, including one that was on the location of a former Mulholland in Marion, Ohio.  Mike was influential in getting other Starlites sold in southern Ohio.  His diner was the first built in 2000 and the 148th diner for Starlite, a former Florida based builder.  Diner 23 is known for good diner food and is also closed on Sundays.

The Fort Westbrookville Diner on US Rt 209 has been closed for quite a few years.  to make things worse, this Master diner was ran into by a car, whose front fender reaches the stools by the counter.   The diner is located in between Wurtsboro(NY Rt 17) and Port Jervis.  I have not been by this diner in probably 3-5 years, so I do not know the latest on the diner, but one would guess it is still lamenting.

  The Club Diner in Bellmawr is typical of many diners in New Jersey.  They get renovated often.  From their web site, the Club Diner started out as a horse drawn wagon, then was replaced by a Ward & Dickinson which was moved to Paulsboro.  A second diner was added for additional space.  The diner you see in this photo is from a 2006 remodeling.  I visited the diner on the Society for Commercial Archeology's southern New Jersey diner tour.  We did not eat at this diner, but it was packed, as seems to be the usual for these large diners on the weekends.

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